Kathryn Pinker » Handmade Things

Christmas cardigan

kp — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:23:46 +0000

When time allows over the last couple of months I’ve been knitting a cardigan for my lovely goddaughter Evie’s Christmas present. I promise the art will return but in the meantime you have to put up with my various attempts at knitwear.

Here’s Evie doing the right thing and wearing it while I’m there.

Green & White Jumper

kp — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:55:59 +0000

Introducing my first attempt at knitting a piece of clothing, as opposed to accessories… this is a Sirdar pattern for a child of 6 – 12 months, and was a present for my friend Ness’s baby Samson. If you look at the back you can see how many errors I had to fix but overall I’m pleased! I really want to make a big one for me.

Here’s Sam in a maelstrom of stripes.

1st bag

kp — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:04:11 +0000

Hello – here’s a little bag I made my mother last week, for her to keep her iPod in. The lovely blue fabric is from a piece of Liberty material I saw in the cut-offs basket in our local fabric shop. This is my first attempt at a bag – it’s fun working out how to do the pull-ties and the lining. She thought the ribbon/bead combination looked a bit like mistletoe..

Red Whippet

kp — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:29:40 +0000

It’s a whippet! I’m told that I’ve managed to create a creature that doesn’t look entirely like any one member of the animal kingdom. I also think it has an air of the evil penguin in Wallace & Gromit about it. I don’t care; as my first attempt at anything more than a hamster in amigurumi, I am proud. Thanks to June Gilbank for the patterns.

Something red

kp — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 09:51:58 +0000

The amigurumi obsession continues.. what do you think this is going to be?

Blue rodent

kp — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:29:28 +0000

Indulge me.. this is after all a blog for craft as well as art. This is my first attempt at amigurumi crochet. It’s meant to be a hamster but its lack of feet disturbed me, so I added a tail. I have no idea what it is now.

The Liverpool Apron

kp — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:44:42 +0000

Here’s an apron I made from a Liverpool FC shirt for my boyfriend’s birthday. I bought a cheap 2nd hand shirt off eBay and converted it in rather haphazard fashion into an apron. It has these gorgeous double-sided velvet ties. It went down well – I thought he needed a manly apron to cook in.

Handmade sketchbooks

kp — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:52:22 +0000

This is the sketchbook I made for my mother; I’ve meant to post this for ages. As with the other sketchbook I made for myself, it has a fabric cover and is filled with Fabriano 5 Liscia (hot-pressed) 210gsm 50% cotton paper. All the posts from South America (see category to the right) were drawn/painted on this paper. As you might be able to tell, it takes watercolours amazingly – nothing comes through the other side and after a couple of days the page on which you painted becomes flat again. If you’d like one made for you, drop me a line. These ones are 189mm/7.4″ x 122mm/4.8″, but you can have any size or fabric you want..

Handmade Sketchbook

kp — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:28:18 +0000

I’m travelling in South America and am hoping to post drawings and paintings from my travels to this page – starting with these photos of my sketchbook, which I made before coming away (I’ve made another for my mother which I’ll post on my return). This one was photographed on the roof of our hostel in Buenos Aires.

The paper is Fabriano 5 Liscia (hot-pressed) 210gsm 50% cotton paper – good for watercolours. [now it's April and I can confirm the paper is excellent for watercolours - absolutely no colour coming through the other side and the paper warps very little.]

Leg warmers!

kp — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:57:23 +0000

I have got a bit into knitting. Here are a pair of leg warmers plus pom-poms…

And here is my friend for whom I made them – deciding instead to use them as arm warmers.